Some schools schedule OOC years in advance, others fill out the schedule only a year or two ahead of time. Va Tech has been down in recent years. And certainly, that loss looked worse at the end of the season than it did at the beginning.

In any event, anti-B1G bias notwithstanding, it seems to me at least a tad hypocritical to count Va Tech as a "real" opponent, but not Penn State or Michigan, especially where the latter is always a rivalry game for tOSU.